well im new here on Mint, and i have to say i love it so far everything just works and not needed to add much more packages to the system for my everyday use.

now i have come over from Ubuntu Feisty and i have been looking for one option that i liked on that distro.

somewhere i found an option to set the patches to auto download and just sit up on the menu bar until i am ready to install them. currently they just notify me when there is a new patch out, however i would like them to download while i am at work or away from the pc, and then ask me when i would like to install them.
this was very handy for me and i was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction to get this turned on in Mint Cassandra

im sorry if this has been posted, but i couldn't find another topic through the search.

thanks for the reply. gee i really thought i was silly there for a moment in not being able to find the software sources icon. however the icon is missing from my administration menu. is there a way to get it back or what is the command i can run from the terminal to get it back please?

well i got into the menu editing part, however software sources is not an option to put a cross next to so it will show up on the mint menu. i can however add an icon manually, but i don't know the paths etc for software sources.

is there anything else i can do to get this software sources back on my menu please?

I can not check mint ATM but if you want software source code on ubuntu you just tick the source code box on the first tab in the software sources app.

the software sources application is called software-properties-gtk and can be run from the command line with a sudo.

sudo software-properties-gtk

try that first, or the manual way next.

the software source repos if you want to add them manually all start with deb-src. so if you want just add them to the end of your /etc/apt/sources.list file you could just copy a line and replace the deb at the start of the line with deb-src.